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Introducing WebSphere CloudBurst

Data center cost is comprised of three main components: hardware, physical costs (such as power and cooling), and administrative management. Among the three, the administrative and management cost component accounts for a significant portion of the overall ongoing cost. As such, removing manual processes, errors, and repetition is a great way to reduce and control IT costs.

The new IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance, along with IBM WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition, provides deployment and management functions to deploy WebSphere Application Server environments in a fast and repeatable manner, significantly reducing the administrative and management requirements typically associated with these activities. Additionally, by leveraging virtualization and cloud computing principles, WebSphere CloudBurst provides the capability to efficiently use a shared resource pool — a private cloud — to reduce infrastructure costs.

This article provides an introduction to WebSphere CloudBurst and WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition and discusses how these new offerings bring the significant advantages of private cloud computing to WebSphere enterprise environments.

For more information about the WebSphere Cloudburst appliance, please send an email to info@optis.be

WebSphere Portal – Tips, tricks, and traps

Tips, tricks and traps you can use in every WebSphere Portal project …

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New IBM Support Portal User Interface

A new way of online support is introduced by IBM. A pdf document can be downloaded, containing an overview about the new features of the support portal.

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WebSphere Application Server for Developers for free

Download WebSphere Application Server for Developers, a no-charge offering that satisfies the need for a no-cost WebSphere Application Server development runtime for projects that don’t warrant the expense of a priced and supported runtime on the developer desktop. Reduce testing effort and develop with confidence using a runtime environment that is identical to the production runtime environment your applications will eventually run on.

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Web 2.0 portlet and portal programming

This article shows you how to exploit the benefits of the Web 2.0 tooling support in IBM® Rational® Application Developer V7.5 for portlet and portal applications running on IBM® WebSphere® Portal V6.1. In a typical portlet application, each request to the server causes a complete refresh of the browser page, which leads to page flickering and performance gaps. Web 2.0 technology enables you to create more dynamic and responsive applications with a superior user experience. The technology aims to turn Web browsers into semi-rich clients by projecting user interface logic for page rendering, navigation, aggregation, and cross-portlet interaction into user’s browsers.

The Web 2.0 tooling support provided with Rational Application Developer aids and expedites the process of creating such dynamic and responsive portlet and portal applications. Tooling support has been provided so that you can:

• Design portlets that interact using Client-Side Click-to-Action, which is a new event paradigm introduced in WebSphere Portal V6.1 for cooperation between portlets.
• Insert Person Menu and the capability to extend the Person Menu.
• Use an Ajax proxy for portlet applications.
• Use a client-side programming model to retrieve portlet preferences efficiently, performing portlet state changes on the client side.

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Spring BlazeDS Integration 1.0.0 Released

The first GA release of Spring BlazeDS Integration, the open source solution for building Spring-powered RIAs with Adobe Flex, is now available.

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IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance

Do you want to install WAS with just one click on a button?

A new appliance has been annouced on the IBM Business Partner Quarterly Get Together.

IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance is a new hardware appliance that provides access to WebSphere virtual images and patterns for easily, quickly and repeatedly creating application environments that can be securely deployed and managed in a private cloud.

More information, click here or send an email to info@optis.be

IBM Business Process Management Journal

Interessed in BPM?

Interessed in the letest set of IBM WebSphere BPM products?

Interessed in SOA?

Then…

IBM Business Process Management Journal will keep you informed